PSY 3604 EXAMS SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔charles whitman - ✔✔Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a brain tumour.
✔✔neuroimaging - ✔✔mri, fmri, pet, tpe
✔✔post stroke shows... - ✔✔depression or mania depending on the hemisphere
✔✔gene x environment - ✔✔brain structure and function
✔✔diathesis - ✔✔risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause disorder)
✔✔stress - ✔✔response to the here and now (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
✔✔freud - ✔✔role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed desires
✔✔behavioral perspective - ✔✔observable behavior, anxiety disorders
classical fear conditioning
✔✔classical fear conditioning - ✔✔The learning process by which an organism
passively associates two stimuli - a neutral stimulus and one that evokes a reflexive
response
✔✔classical fear conditioning in anxiety disorders - ✔✔stimulus generalization,
enhanced conditionability
✔✔2 stage learning - ✔✔classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning (avoid
contact with anxiety inducing thing)
✔✔cognitive behavioral perspective - ✔✔awfulizing (this is a disaster)-- cognitive
recalculating
demanding (i/you should be different)-- adjust expectations
self-doubt (i'm worthless)-- disputation
✔✔genetic viewpoint - ✔✔genes provide instructions for human traits, create proteins,
determine sensitivity to environment
✔✔brain as a mediator - ✔✔gene x environment = brain structure and function =
emotion and cognition
, ✔✔social perspective - ✔✔early trauma or deprivation, parenting problems, marital
discord, unemployment, maladaptive peer relationship, prejudice and discrimination all
have detrimental affects on children
✔✔psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain
personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants
of behavior
✔✔ego defense mechanisms - ✔✔mechanisms that soothe anxiety rather than coping
directly with the situation; usually unconscious and reality distorting
✔✔psychosexual stages of development - ✔✔oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage,
latency stage, genital stage
✔✔ego psychology - ✔✔emphasizes the importance of the individual's ability to
regulate defenses in ways that allow healthy functioning within the realities of society
✔✔interpersonal perspective - ✔✔psychopathology is rooted in the unfortunate
tendencies we have developed while dealing with our interpersonal environments
✔✔attachment theory - ✔✔the idea that early attachments with parents and other
caregivers can shape relationships for a person's whole life
✔✔neurotransmitters - ✔✔either stimulate postsynaptic neuron to initiate impulse or
inhibit impulse transmission. imbalance leads to dysfunctional behavior
✔✔basic elements of clinical assessment - ✔✔what is problem? level of personal
distress? hospitalization? environmental factors? prior attempts to help? patient
strengths? match dsm disorder?
✔✔psychosexual assessment components - ✔✔assessment interviews, clinical
observation of behavior, psychological tests
✔✔assessment interviews - ✔✔face to face interaction, structured interviews, and
unstructured interviews
✔✔clinical observation of behavior - ✔✔direct observation of the client's appearance
and behavior
✔✔psychological tests - ✔✔intelligence (wechsler adult intelligence tests)
personality (rorschach inkblot, sentence completion, objective q+a)
✔✔diagnostic classification of mental disorders - ✔✔dsm in north america and icd in
europe
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔charles whitman - ✔✔Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a brain tumour.
✔✔neuroimaging - ✔✔mri, fmri, pet, tpe
✔✔post stroke shows... - ✔✔depression or mania depending on the hemisphere
✔✔gene x environment - ✔✔brain structure and function
✔✔diathesis - ✔✔risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause disorder)
✔✔stress - ✔✔response to the here and now (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
✔✔freud - ✔✔role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed desires
✔✔behavioral perspective - ✔✔observable behavior, anxiety disorders
classical fear conditioning
✔✔classical fear conditioning - ✔✔The learning process by which an organism
passively associates two stimuli - a neutral stimulus and one that evokes a reflexive
response
✔✔classical fear conditioning in anxiety disorders - ✔✔stimulus generalization,
enhanced conditionability
✔✔2 stage learning - ✔✔classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning (avoid
contact with anxiety inducing thing)
✔✔cognitive behavioral perspective - ✔✔awfulizing (this is a disaster)-- cognitive
recalculating
demanding (i/you should be different)-- adjust expectations
self-doubt (i'm worthless)-- disputation
✔✔genetic viewpoint - ✔✔genes provide instructions for human traits, create proteins,
determine sensitivity to environment
✔✔brain as a mediator - ✔✔gene x environment = brain structure and function =
emotion and cognition
, ✔✔social perspective - ✔✔early trauma or deprivation, parenting problems, marital
discord, unemployment, maladaptive peer relationship, prejudice and discrimination all
have detrimental affects on children
✔✔psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain
personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants
of behavior
✔✔ego defense mechanisms - ✔✔mechanisms that soothe anxiety rather than coping
directly with the situation; usually unconscious and reality distorting
✔✔psychosexual stages of development - ✔✔oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage,
latency stage, genital stage
✔✔ego psychology - ✔✔emphasizes the importance of the individual's ability to
regulate defenses in ways that allow healthy functioning within the realities of society
✔✔interpersonal perspective - ✔✔psychopathology is rooted in the unfortunate
tendencies we have developed while dealing with our interpersonal environments
✔✔attachment theory - ✔✔the idea that early attachments with parents and other
caregivers can shape relationships for a person's whole life
✔✔neurotransmitters - ✔✔either stimulate postsynaptic neuron to initiate impulse or
inhibit impulse transmission. imbalance leads to dysfunctional behavior
✔✔basic elements of clinical assessment - ✔✔what is problem? level of personal
distress? hospitalization? environmental factors? prior attempts to help? patient
strengths? match dsm disorder?
✔✔psychosexual assessment components - ✔✔assessment interviews, clinical
observation of behavior, psychological tests
✔✔assessment interviews - ✔✔face to face interaction, structured interviews, and
unstructured interviews
✔✔clinical observation of behavior - ✔✔direct observation of the client's appearance
and behavior
✔✔psychological tests - ✔✔intelligence (wechsler adult intelligence tests)
personality (rorschach inkblot, sentence completion, objective q+a)
✔✔diagnostic classification of mental disorders - ✔✔dsm in north america and icd in
europe
